Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich and /lse,
February I, 1952Many thanks for the delightful parcel of sweets. They are
indeed a wonderful luxury to us with our sweet rationing.
I want to make a sad proposal ... that I stop corresponding with you.
I have just been reading an American novel about the witch hunt,
showing that the least small association with a person who is suspected
of being semi-communist or pacifist is enough to get the haters of life
busy hunting out the witches. The novel convinces me that I need not
again bother to try to get a visa. I don't want to endanger you dear
people in any way. The mere fact that you correspond with a man who
is considered dangerous to the U. S.A. might, if known by letter opening
or any other way, be enough to make you suspect too. I hate communism
and am coming to hate and fear the methods used in fighting the damned
creed, for they are not love nor charitable methods. They are arising
in this country too.
I have just had a week up north in England, the first time in my life
that a university (Durham and Newcastle) has ever asked me officially
to talk to them in this country. I held a seminar of profs and lecturers
and I think made them think. They had never heard of your work and I
told them they must have your books in the university library.
I have been asked again to lecture in south Sweden and Denmark at
Easter, taking in the smaller towns like Malmo, Goteborg, etc.
How are you both in health? How is that heart, Mister Reich? Are
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